Bedřich is a Czech masculine given name, a Czech variant of the German name Friedrich and English

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. It also appears as a surname (feminine: Bedřichová). Feminine counterpart of the given name is Bedřiška. Notable people with the name include:

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Sports

* Bedřich Brunclík (born 1946), Czech ice hockey player * Bedřich Dvořák (1930–2018), Czech sprint canoeist * Bedrich Formánek (1933–2023), Slovak chess composer * Bedřich Hamsa (born 1965), Czech footballer *

Bedřich Köhler Bedřich Köhler (born February 14, 1985) is a Czech professional ice hockey player currently with HC Zlín in the Czech Extraliga. He has previously played for HC Vítkovice Steel, Mountfield HK and HC Kometa Brno HC Kometa Brno ("Comet" in En ...

(born 1985), Czech ice hockey player * Bedřich Nikodém (1909–1970), Czech table tennis player, composer and musician * Bedřich Posselt, Czech luger and bobsledder *

Bedřich Ščerban Bedřich Ščerban (born 31 May 1964) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He competed at three Winter Olympics. Career Ščerban began his career with HC Dukla Jihlava of the Czech Extraliga in 1986. In 1991, he moved to Fi ...

(born 1964), Czech ice hockey player * Bedřich Schejbal (1874–?), Czech fencer *

Bedřich Šupčík Bedřich Šupčík (22 October 1898 – 11 July 1957) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak gymnastics, gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he received a gold medal in rope climbing, and a bronze me ...

(1898–1957), Czech gymnast

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* Beda Batka, born Bedřich Baťka (1922–1994), Czech-American cinematographer * Miroslav Bedřich Böhnel (1886–1962), Czech writer * Bedřich Bridel (1619–1680), Czech writer, poet and missionary *

Bedřich Dlouhý Bedřich Dlouhý (2 August 1932 – 30 May 2025) was Czech painter and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Life Bedřich Dlouhý's family moved from Plzeň to Most, and after the annexation of Sudetenland in 1938, settled in P ...

(1932–2025), Czech painter *

Bedřich Feigl Bedřich Feigl (also known as Friedrich Feigl; 6 March 1884 – 17 December 1965) was a Czech-Jewish painter, graphic designer and illustrator. Biography Feigl studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts with Vlaho Bukovac and Franz Thiele. In 1 ...

(1884–1965), Czech-Jewish painter, graphic designer and illustrator * Bedřich Feuerstein (1892–1936), Czech architect, painter and essayist *

Bedřich Fritta Bedřich Fritta (19 September 1906, Višňová – 8 November 1944, Auschwitz) was a Czech-Jewish artist and cartoonist. Life Fritta was born to a Jewish family in Višňová as Fritz Taussig. After his father's death he moved to Prague with ...

(1906–1944), Czech-Jewish artist and cartoonist * Bedřich Golombek (1901–1961), Czech journalist and writer *

Bedřich Havránek Bedřich Havránek or, in German, Friedrich Hawranek (4 January 1821, Prague - 1 March 1899, Prague) was a Czech painter, illustrator and art teacher. Biography His father was a lawyer who served on the Criminal Council. His mother was the da ...

(1821–1899), Czech painter, illustrator and art teacher *

Jan Bedřich Kittl Jan Bedřich Kittl (; 8 May 1806 – 20 July 1868) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Biography Kittl was born in Orlík nad Vltavou, Orlík. After studying law in Prague, Kittl studied music with Václav Tomášek. From 1843 to 1864, he headed the P ...

(1806–1868), Czech composer *

Fritz Löhner-Beda Fritz Löhner-Beda (24 June 1883 – 4 December 1942), born Bedřich Löwy, was an Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer. Once nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes remain popular today. He was murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz conce ...

, born Bedřich Löwy (1883–1942), Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer *

Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( ; ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded ...

(1824–1884), Czech composer *

Bedřich Tylšar Bedřich Tylšar (born 9 July 1939 in Vrahovice, Prostějov, Second Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech Republic, Czech horn player and music pedagogue. He is the brother of hornist Zdeněk Tylšar, and a long-term member of the Czech ...

(born 1939), Czech horn player and music pedagogue *

Bedřich Wachsmann Bedřich Wachsmann (24 May 1820 – 27 February 1897) was a German-speaking painter, decorator and architect from the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary. His grandnephews were Jiří Voskovec and Alois Wachsman. He was born Friedrich Wac ...

(1820–1897), Czech-German painter, decorator and architect *

Bedřich Diviš Weber Bedřich Diviš Weber (9 October 1766, Velichov, nr. Karlovy Vary25 December 1842, Prague), also known by the German form of his name, Friedrich Dionys (or Dionysius) Weber, was a Bohemian composer and musicologist primarily remembered as the f ...

(1766–1842), Czech composer and musicologist *

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (November 10, 1883 in Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia – November 5, 1951 in Prague) was a Czech organist, composer, teacher, and expert in organ building. Life Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann was born in Ivanovice in H ...

(1883–1951), Czech organist, composer and teacher

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Bedrich Benes Bedrich Benes (born Bedřich Beneš 10 November 1967) is a Czech-American computer scientist and a researcher in computer graphics. Academic positions He is a professor and associate head of computer science at Purdue University. He was a memb ...

(born 1967), Czech-American computer scientist *

Bedřich Bernau Bedřich (Friedrich) Bernau, born Přemysl Bačkora (22 August 1849, in Prague – 2 January 1904, in Plaňany) was a Czech amateur archaeologist, who wrote popular works on that subject and ethnography. He changed his name out of concern that pub ...

, pseudonym of Přemysl Bačkora (1849–1904), Czech archaeologist and ethnographer * Bedřich Bloudek (1815–1875), Czech military leader *

Bedřich Geminder Bedřich Geminder (19 November 1901, in Vítkovice (Ostrava), Vítkovice – 3 December 1952, in Prague) was a Czech politician. He was the Chief of the International Section of the Secretariat of Czechoslovak Communist Party. He was executed tog ...

(1901–1952), Czech politician * Bedřich Havlíček (1922–1994), Czech historian and ethnographer * Bedřich Homola (1887–1943), Czech army general *

Bedřich Hrozný Bedřich Hrozný (; 6 May 1879 – 12 December 1952), also known as , was a Czechs, Czech Oriental studies, orientalist and linguist. He contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language, ...

(1879–1952), Czech orientalist and linguist * Bedřich Moldan (born 1935), Czech ecologist, publicist and politician * Bedřich Neumann (1891–1964), Czech army general * Bedřich Pokorný (1904–1968), Czech secret service officer * Bedřich Pola (born 1963), Czech entrepreneur * Bedřich Procházka (1855–1934), Czech mathematician * Bedřich Reicin (1911–1952), Czech politician and army officer * Bedřich Schnirch (1791–1848), Czech engineer *

Bedřich Silva-Tarouca Count Bedřich Silva-Tarouca (; 11 December 1816, Čechy pod Kosířem – 23 June 1881, Brno) was a Czech Catholic priest; descended from a noble Moravians, Moravian family of Portuguese ancestry. In additional to his priestly duties, he was a ...

(1816–1881), Czech priest and patron of the arts * Bedřich Václavek (1897–1943), Czech literary theorist and journalist

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* Václav Bedřich (1918–2009) Czech animator, actor and film director

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